January Walking Challenge 2016
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I have been a member of MFP for a couple years....but really have been lazy about it to be honest. But I think this is a great challenge! I am in!!!!
just as an idea for Feb...have a private group that we are all invited to and get assigned to a color....teams....and we each log every day if we can and see what group walks the most (winner) at the end of the month...might be a little more motivation!0 -
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I average 10k to 12k steps a day. I love waking! I can't do intense cardio for medical reasons (I pass out. It's cool, but scary).0
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1/1/2016 -- I walked 3.5 miles in 54 minutes.0
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I'm in! Aiming for 100 miles this month.
January 2nd - 2 miles0 -
Today I walked at a leisurely pace for 120m, no idea how far that equates to but my feet hurt by the end so that's a good sign.0
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Im in, I actually have started a walking challenge for myself for the year. But this will help me succeed my goals. I am doing a walk from austin tx to los angeles, I started at 1 mile a day and increasing it half a mile every week and before the year is up i would have walked all the way to and pass los angeles california..0
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I'm game!!!0
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IAmHere4MyHealth wrote: »I'm looking for a step counter app for my phone. It's old, but new to me, and I have no idea how it works yet. I will probably be doing a time challenge instead of distance for now.
I use the withings app which is free and really good for tracking steps
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2.5 mile walk around the neighborhood today. That puts me at 3.5 miles so far.0
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Nicely done, everyone!
Brookej, I like your goal. I wonder if I can find the Lord of the Rings walking distances again. (I'm nerdy. What can I say?)
I had my phone in my pocket the whole time I was having a walking date with a friend, her puppy, and my dog. That was kind of impressive... 9497 steps, 5.1 miles. Weird. Didn't seem that long. I guess the friend who speaks English and not just dog also makes it easier.
I definitely will have a hard time keeping that up when work starts back on Monday and/or the sideways rain comes back.
But for now, it's sunny and COLD. I'll take it.
ETA: Here's how one does simply walk into Mordor with lots of useful information that's not about hobbits. http://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/2012/07/23/walking/
This one has the distances for LOTR journeys. http://home.insightbb.com/~eowynchallenge/Walk/walk.html
I'm going to do the Bag End to Rivendell walk first. 3.5 + 5.1 = 8.6 miles in two days. That puts me getting my last glimpses of Hobbiton (http://home.insightbb.com/~eowynchallenge/Tools/Bag_end/bag_end.html).
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Count me in. I have been semi-AWOL in 2015 but I need to get back at it.0
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Hi Folks, just signed up to MFP, and saw this. I have tried running, and always seem to injure myself, so walking it is! Swaped to a very sedentary job last year and have piled on the pounds. Walked miles around London today, but no pedometer. Going to put one on tomorrow abd try to do 10,000 a day or equivalent each day.0
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Great challenge concept. Walking is something we can all do regularly and it gives back SO much.
Personally I love it! Today I walked hills for one hour at a brisk pace.0 -
I walked 500 steps today!!!0
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IAmHere4MyHealth wrote: »I'm looking for a step counter app for my phone. It's old, but new to me, and I have no idea how it works yet. I will probably be doing a time challenge instead of distance for now.
Iamhere4- Just to let you know, a lot of the phone apps for step counting are quite innaccurate . Some of them require your phone screen to be awake the entire time and some of them just don't account for each person's difference in strides. It's a good idea to use time as your guide until/unless you can get a fitbit or something like it. Good luck with your new goal!0 -
I haven't managed to do any real exercise yet, and I just left a potluck that I really shouldn't have gone to! It is the first church event that I've managed to get to on a non Sunday, so I thought I'd give it a try... Not such a good idea!
I've looked into some free phone apps and think I may have found one that will work for me. If it does what it says, I should have a count tomorrow.0
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